You know twit, unfortunately you are so amazingly and utterly fucked up that if we were comparing a Linsux Ford Fiesta with a Microsoft Bugatti Veyron you would still find a way to claim that the Fiesta is "better" and strut off into the sunset wiggling your ass. If your idea of why Calc (which amusingly you accept you've never used) is "better" consists of a few menu items that you feel are placed in more convenient locations and font formatting of a chart then there's really nothing to discuss here, as usual. And as usual, the best you can do in these cases is whimper like a little dog about "fanboys" and "astroturfers". Do you still think Bill Gates employs people in India to stalk you exclusively?
I will say that I am surpised you decided to stick around for more than two posts, when usually when someone calls you on your zealot rah-rah FUD you disappear rather quickly. But you really have to find a better way to articulate your ideas. This little jihad of yours gets nowhere faster every year.
Besides, discussing with someone who posts useless drivel like this tends to give me a headache more often than not. So run along now. I'm sure we'll talk later again.
The fact that it's free means that it will cost less and work better, as I showed.
The fact that it's free means it will cost less, but it doesn't mean it will work better. Do you understand this? And you "showed" absolutely anything other than your preference for OO Calc, however, that is your opinion and personal preference. It does not translate to fact just because you wish it would.
Can you tell me, what "feature" Open Office is missing, other than a $400 price tag?
I would, except I don't have that much time on my hands.
Don't you have some $19.95 buggy whips or something
Go ahead and refute that post, if you like it so much. I have a few of yours that I'm sure you'd have lots of fun with, too.
It is possible to construct two bytestrings that have the same MD5 hash. In fact, it's relatively easy to.
You're right of course, but as long as you use MD5 for simple checksums you should be OK. The possibility of a finding a collision in the "real world" remains extremely low. Heck, MD5 has had a pretty good run since Rivest came up with it in the early 90s.
Eventually we can all move to SHA-256 or whatever.
A quick trial of OO Calc shows that it's much better, even though I don't know how to use it.
ROFL
Just the same, if the two were identical and I had no other choice, I'd use Calc. Can you tell me why you would spend $400
That has nothing to do with "better" or "superior", and it is a choice based on cost, or perhaps simple predisposition or ideological preference (in your case). It is not a choice made on the basis of functionality or return on investment. Your problem is that your flawed ideology is more important than simple, basic functionality.
My number 1 gripe with people's assumptions is that the iPhone will be a 100% closed-product. This is bunk. Firstly, nobody official has said anything close to that. Just that development kits are not available at this time. Why is that? Let's think about it.
Yes... which is where we got the iMac, iPod and iTunes.
No, that predates Apple, by far.
I wonder if Apple can make the case that people already associate the "i*" with THEM, either the 'iPhones' TradeMark should be considered diluted, or it should be assigned to them.
Really? What do you figure the argument would be? "Well your honor, we put 'i' in front of everything and we're so cool, you should really just ignore Cisco and assign the trademark to us. Yes? We'll throw in an iPod with iTunes and a subscription to iLife. And a rebate for the next iProduct we come up with".
I really didn't know about this and besides this "schism" thing I think it's incredibly interesting that they managed to sell $100K+ worth of software per day for six days. This tells us a lot about the relative size of the OS X installed base and the willingness of said base to buy software. I think the shareware model could do a lot for the Mac, much as it did for the Windows platform 10+ years ago. The more quality software (applications) available for a platform, the more people will be able to consider switching to it.
Do you still have bad things to say about Bruce Perens?
I'm not sure twitter. Do you still have bad things to say about "Ali Baba" or whatever the hell you were trying to do with this post?
BTW, I'm delighted that you saved one of my posts for future reference. Me, I filed this one away once. Always comes in handy when you try to be clever.
Oi, good old twitter. Always running into the headlights.
Buggi
OMFG, creative spelling!! LOLOLOL!!! That's the last thing I expected from you!
You have claimed to live in Baton Rouge
Nope, retard. You must be mistaking me for one of your adoring fans.
Don't you have some dollar signs to hump or something? You're tiresome when you inflict your bullshit on other people and I have to read it - I find it definitely insulting that you'd actually reply to me. "Buggi" off now.
This is probably going to be a massive "M$ IS TEH SUX" and "Windoze crashes every five minutes, use Linux instead" religious FUD campaign, except that now it will be officially sanctioned by the FSF. I'm guessing they figure what worked for the browser (GET FIREFOX OR YOU WILL DIE!!!) will work for the operating system as well.
Be careful what you wish for, Moglen, Stallman et.al. You just might get it.
And when/if this group finally wins this lawsuit (French consumer law! yay!) HP will sell PCs without an OS in... France. And everybody will buy these PCs... yes, because Francois wants to install Ubuntu Christmas morning. Or better yet, buy Windows retail for $199 or whatever that's in Euros instead of getting it bundled for $40.
Oh yes, the "Microsoft tax". Always a winning argument.
I've always had a problem with the "LOLOL M$ SUXX" crowd, but this is stupid. The Apache code is also available, and it doesn't have these problems. The problem is the basic design of PHP, compounded by the large number of "developers" that have taken it up as the language du jour instead of using better-designed platforms like Python, Ruby or Java. Or yes, any of the.NET languages and ASP/IIS.
As I finished typing this I realized I'm probably feeding the troll ("patent lawyer", right) but oh well...
Next time I'm in London and I'm about to pop a cap in some ManU cracker at a pub I'll say "prepare yourself for the afterlife, dear" in a very soft voice. It sure beats "YOU"RE GOING DOWN MOTHAFUCKER!!!"
When Google does it it's an interesting and enigmatic experiment that everybody likes to watch, but when it's Microsoft (and we're talking about exactly the same thing here, except that they started 10 years ago) then they're "stumbling in the dark" and it's just "a matter of time before they fail". XBox, MSN, Encarta, most of their server products, etc. That's just too funny.
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I'm sorry, your choice of title sort of confused me there. What do you mean "american consumer" and exactly what are you trying to say?
And this is a problem.. why?
I will say that I am surpised you decided to stick around for more than two posts, when usually when someone calls you on your zealot rah-rah FUD you disappear rather quickly. But you really have to find a better way to articulate your ideas. This little jihad of yours gets nowhere faster every year.
Besides, discussing with someone who posts useless drivel like this tends to give me a headache more often than not. So run along now. I'm sure we'll talk later again.
Just about any Fortune 1000 firm in the US, for starters. Why?
They're also planning on implimenting a program of streetcorner video cameras, as seen in the city of London.
The fact that it's free means it will cost less, but it doesn't mean it will work better. Do you understand this? And you "showed" absolutely anything other than your preference for OO Calc, however, that is your opinion and personal preference. It does not translate to fact just because you wish it would.
Can you tell me, what "feature" Open Office is missing, other than a $400 price tag?
I would, except I don't have that much time on my hands.
Don't you have some $19.95 buggy whips or something
Go ahead and refute that post, if you like it so much. I have a few of yours that I'm sure you'd have lots of fun with, too.
You're right of course, but as long as you use MD5 for simple checksums you should be OK. The possibility of a finding a collision in the "real world" remains extremely low. Heck, MD5 has had a pretty good run since Rivest came up with it in the early 90s.
Eventually we can all move to SHA-256 or whatever.
ROFL
Just the same, if the two were identical and I had no other choice, I'd use Calc. Can you tell me why you would spend $400
That has nothing to do with "better" or "superior", and it is a choice based on cost, or perhaps simple predisposition or ideological preference (in your case). It is not a choice made on the basis of functionality or return on investment. Your problem is that your flawed ideology is more important than simple, basic functionality.
http://apple.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/01/12/ 0430200
You're welcome.
No, that predates Apple, by far.
I wonder if Apple can make the case that people already associate the "i*" with THEM, either the 'iPhones' TradeMark should be considered diluted, or it should be assigned to them.
Really? What do you figure the argument would be? "Well your honor, we put 'i' in front of everything and we're so cool, you should really just ignore Cisco and assign the trademark to us. Yes? We'll throw in an iPod with iTunes and a subscription to iLife. And a rebate for the next iProduct we come up with".
It doesn't quite work that way.
There's a difference between being clever and being smart.
You're right, I didn't catch that. Even more impressive.
I really didn't know about this and besides this "schism" thing I think it's incredibly interesting that they managed to sell $100K+ worth of software per day for six days. This tells us a lot about the relative size of the OS X installed base and the willingness of said base to buy software. I think the shareware model could do a lot for the Mac, much as it did for the Windows platform 10+ years ago. The more quality software (applications) available for a platform, the more people will be able to consider switching to it.
I'm not sure twitter. Do you still have bad things to say about "Ali Baba" or whatever the hell you were trying to do with this post?
BTW, I'm delighted that you saved one of my posts for future reference. Me, I filed this one away once. Always comes in handy when you try to be clever.
Buggi
OMFG, creative spelling!! LOLOLOL!!! That's the last thing I expected from you!
You have claimed to live in Baton Rouge
Nope, retard. You must be mistaking me for one of your adoring fans.
Don't you have some dollar signs to hump or something? You're tiresome when you inflict your bullshit on other people and I have to read it - I find it definitely insulting that you'd actually reply to me. "Buggi" off now.
What you want to do is find someone who gives a flying rat's ass what you think. And it's not me, really.
No, I'm Jack. Seen my hill?
Be careful what you wish for, Moglen, Stallman et.al. You just might get it.
Oh yes, the "Microsoft tax". Always a winning argument.
As I finished typing this I realized I'm probably feeding the troll ("patent lawyer", right) but oh well...
Except, at least around here, when it happens to be reporting something negative about Microsoft. Then it's usually the end-all of online journalism.
$DEITY bless technology.
Preemptively replacing hard drives is dumb, sorry. Back things up and replace them when they die, because they will.
Yes, it's been a huge failure so far.
When Google does it it's an interesting and enigmatic experiment that everybody likes to watch, but when it's Microsoft (and we're talking about exactly the same thing here, except that they started 10 years ago) then they're "stumbling in the dark" and it's just "a matter of time before they fail". XBox, MSN, Encarta, most of their server products, etc. That's just too funny.